The first tip I want to give ALL developers to massively improve their productivity, no matter what environment they use, is to use at least 2 monitors. Until you use more than 1 monitor, you have no idea what an impact it has. I've been using 2 monitors
at work for about 2 years, and sometimes I feel the need for even more screen real estate.

posted by TommyCarlier

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Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:00:29 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-C9-TechFest-Windows-7-Dev-Tools-and-WPF-in-Visual-Studio-2010#c633715092290000000TommyCarlierRe: This Week on C9: TechFest, Windows 7, Dev Tools, and WPF in Visual Studio 2010
I have 2 screens set up similarly at work (VS2005) -- now I want two widescreens ...

Nice episode, as ever.

Herbie

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Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:11:02 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-C9-TechFest-Windows-7-Dev-Tools-and-WPF-in-Visual-Studio-2010#c633715098620000000Dr HerbieRe: This Week on C9: TechFest, Windows 7, Dev Tools, and WPF in Visual Studio 2010
Nice show again. I should give Family.show (and genealogy) another go. Ever since I found out that there was a famous 18th century sideshow midget with my family name, I've been wanting to find out if he's related...

The first tip I want to give ALL developers to massively improve their productivity, no matter what environment they use, is to use at least 2 monitors. Until you use more than 1 monitor, you have no idea what an impact it has. I've been using 2
monitors at work for about 2 years, and sometimes I feel the need for even more screen real estate.

I have two screens at work, and I nearly never use the secondary monitor. I just plain forget to use it.

I think the main problem is that I'm using my laptop connected to an external screen. The laptop sits to the right and its monitor is the secondary monitor. Because I need to leave room for my mouse, it sits rather far back, making text on that screen too small
to read comfortably. There is no other place I can put it, and no way to increase font size on just that screen (DPI should really be a per screen setting, but I can understand the technical reasons why this isn't the case).